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Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:39 am
by Drgnslyr221
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As you can see the fairways end well before the fairway bunkers and trees.

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Here's an overhead of the same parallel holes in google maps. You can see the fairways go all the way up to the bunkers and appears to actually go all the way up to the treeline.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:48 am
by JMK59
I'd have to agree with your assessment. Skunky is usually a very accurate designer, but maybe in this case he didn't use lidar data. I still like playing his courses.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:56 am
by Drgnslyr221
Barring that it's a great course.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:11 am
by JMK59
Agreed. I set it up, I hope, with fair pins and conditions for the very long holes. I look to combine challenging pin placements without being unfair from a golf perspective. Par is fair, birdie is a bonus.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:26 am
by Drgnslyr221
There's no deep rough near the fairways so it shouldn't be bad.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:32 am
by JMK59
:good: Hope you enjoy the setup.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:44 am
by Drgnslyr221
Yeah, nothing like hard greens and tucked pins to help with the 20-30% missing fairways.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:02 am
by JMK59
I didn't say it would be easy. :biggrin:

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:10 pm
by Drgnslyr221
Touche! You did not. For my part I proceeded to slice my tee shot on one into the trees so the missing fairways were irrelevant, lol

Looking at the first batch of scores and I didn't do so bad. SA is probably one of the harder TPC courses anyway. I lived in San Antonio for 10 months back in 2008 before I made Denver my home.

The course is on the edge of the hill country and the undergrowth in that area is very rocky and there's these little thick bushes all over the place. Also one of the native trees are short and squatty so good luck punching under those.

Hill country Texas is underrated for it's beauty. A lot great hiking and camping, Especially around Austin.

Re: 2021 Course Selection Notes

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:32 pm
by Seasider47
I think this is a great course